Communication Style

Communication Style is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by tzachbon in smart-ralph.

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Install Communication Style

Copy Communication Style into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/tzachbon/smart-ralph/tree/main/plugins/ralph-speckit/skills/communication-style ~/.claude/skills/communication-style

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/tzachbon/smart-ralph.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/ralph-speckit/skills/communication-style/SKILL.md in tzachbon/smart-ralph
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/communication-style
Collection: One of 19 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Communication Style does

Communication Style defines concise output rules for agents: short, scannable, actionable. Use it when writing plans, status updates, or task breakdowns that need to be easy to scan in a terminal.

Communication Style is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Communication Style comes from a repository tagged agentic-coding, ai, ai-agents, autonomous-coding and claude.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Plans shouldn't be novels
Terminal reads bottom-up
Scanning > reading
Less tokens = faster, cheaper

Output Rules

1. Brevity First

Instead of	Write
"The user will be able to..."	"User can..."
"This component is responsible for..."	"Handles..."
"In order to achieve this, we need to..."	"Requires:"
"It should be noted that..."	(delete)

Use:

Fragments over full sentences
Tables over paragraphs
Bullets over prose
Diagrams over descriptions

2. Structure for Scanning

Every output follows this order:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Communication Style

What else does tzachbon publish alongside Communication Style?
Communication Style is one of 19 skills that DirSkills catalogs from tzachbon/smart-ralph, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Delegation Principle, Ralph Specum and Ralph Specum Cancel. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Communication Style does, and is maintained by tzachbon in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the tzachbon/smart-ralph page.
How does Communication Style compare to other Writing skills?
Communication Style ranks #799 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Communication Style against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.